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Date:      Mon, 21 Mar 2005 12:36:40 +0000
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        c0ldbyte <c0ldbyte@myrealbox.com>
Cc:        "H. S." <security@revolutionsp.com>
Subject:   Re: passwd & permissions
Message-ID:  <20050321123640.GA74746@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <20050321072417.T40399@eleanor.us1.wmi.uvac.net>
References:  <49296.81.84.174.5.1111346817.squirrel@mail.revolutionsp.com> <20050321072417.T40399@eleanor.us1.wmi.uvac.net>

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On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 07:33:25AM -0500, c0ldbyte wrote:
> About the easiest way to go about it would be to set the umask for passwd
> command well in operation.

Unfortunately, I don't think this will work because pwd_mkdb explicitly
sets the permissions on the files in question.

	David.



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